June 09, 2003

How to freak me out

I love waking up with a splitting headache, then trying to comment on my own blog and getting an error:

(Got an error: Connection error: Access denied for user: 'myusername@my.server.ip' (Using password: YES)

Then trying to log in and getting the same freaking error. (With my actual user ID and server IP, not the aliases I put in their place.) Anyway, I was just able to sign into my database control panel and everything seemed fine to my inexperienced eyes, and here I am able to make a post. Right?

Posted by Andrea Harris at June 9, 2003 11:39 AM
Comments

Sounds like one of those pesky "We were defragging the hard drive on your server -- sorry for the inconvenience" things that I've seen happen sometimes with my domain host. Sure does wake one up and get the blood pumping, doesn't it?

Posted by: McGehee at June 9, 2003 at 12:15 PM

It reads like a classic MySQL permissions error. Probably they were either backing up or restoring the database.

Posted by: Robert Crawford at June 9, 2003 at 12:35 PM

Yeah, heard from the site admin; they were just doing some maintenance.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at June 9, 2003 at 06:33 PM

I have a form letter I dash off to tech support at my host for just such occasions, which mercifully have been a lot fewer lately.

Posted by: CGHill at June 9, 2003 at 08:38 PM